When offered HBO as part of a bundle by Comcast I told the Rep I disagreed with HBO's political philosophy and blatant ideology. That was a couple of years ago. They haven't changed. Hopefully, NETFLIX, BLOCKBUSTER and other movie rental firms will drive HBO out of business. Hollywood produces some good movies if they stick with what sells and not anti-American propaganda.

I'm just tired of the insincerity. Usually, the outrageous outrage/boycott statement comes from the left followed by the cloying corporate apology a day or two later. It sounds no better when it comes from the right.

It would seem to me that they'd want to avoid dragging current day political metaphors into a show where the primary enemy is a narcissistic boy king whose overweening sense of destiny and entitlement lead him to destroy everything he touches.

::shrug:: If I hadn't been told the fake head looked like President Bush, I probably wouldn't have noticed it. Why gin up a controversy where none existed to begin with?

They, being the Leftist pricks they are, thougt it was a jolly good joke and wanted to make sure everyone knew how clever they were. Too bad not everyone finds it funny. Expect more of this, I think the cultural tide is turning.

Not necessarily. GRRM has said he may have as many as 8-9 books in this series. I'm half expecting him to go David Weber/Safehold and declare it to be a long, lost human colony on another planet :) If that's the case, surely there's some Bush DNA involved.

Silly? yes. Deliberate? Probably. should they be called on it? Of course. Will it hurt the left ie Obama? Probably I'm a little sick of the frat boy pranks of the left, and I can see I'm not the only one.

I just wonder in what other contexts they have used the severed head of George Bush. Has this head been used in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Scream III? Are there any other Presidents honored with a severed head in the prop department? Besides Nixon, of course.

"We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production."

Translation: buy your DVDs now before we go all George Lucas on them!

Anyone genuinely outraged by this needs to get his humor-ectomy reversed.

I'll echo an earlier comment and say that Eddard Stark was one of the few honestly and sincerely good men in the series, and on that comparison it's hard to get too outraged. On the other hand, it's pretty obvious that's not the comparison the show's creators were making. The idea that this wasn't mean as a political statement can't be taken seriously. It obviously is. That it's a childish and moronic statement doesn't change anything. HBO clearly understands the impact of such things, which is why they're apologizing, but everyone knows it's insincere. There's much gleeful gloating over it in the usual circles--and no shame. As usual, the death fantasies say more about Bush's political enemies than it does about him.

Well, I don't think they should use a sitting president, so not Obama, (at least until next year), but making a game of trying to catch a glimpse of Clinton or JFK or Reagan would be a pretty good promotion, as those things go.

But if they *wouldn't* use Obama, then some soul searching needs to be done.